Did you poop during labour?

I think I had the tiniest bit of liquid poo, because I had a bit of a stomach bug leading up to birth. But honestly it was so tiny and I didn’t even notice anything happening.

They’ll clean it straight out of the way if it does happen, and honestly you’re so in the moment of trying to push a baby out that you don’t even notice it. I know it seems scary but it’s honestly nothing to worry about/to be embarrassed about

I have absolutely no idea if I did or not. I was in theatre getting an episiotomy and a forceps birth and my knees where literally at my ears. I couldn't feel a thing from my hips downwards.

But its nothing to be embarrassed about if you do, the midwives and doctors won't even acknowledge it.

No usually you’ll have more chance of pooping if you were induced…. The body wasn’t ready, the body didn’t get to clear out beforehand. The signs of labour coming are actually diarrhoea, going more than usual, the women’s body does that naturally to make space for the babys head to engage down. All 3 births I had nothing left to shit for the day, it all came out a week-few days prior. I just kept needing to go like twice a day. For a week 😵‍💫

2 inductions which were 2 water births and didn’t poop and we defo would of seen it lol

I didn’t but I really felt like I was form the pressure 😭😭

I’m shallow, so I was very focus on my anus during the last stage of birth. I cared so much about preventing pooping and avoiding a haemorrhoid that I didn’t really push and just squeezed my bum hole tight, so it stayed closed. I know that’s ridiculous, but I certainly didn’t poop and my baby came out fine on her own. I read somewhere that you don’t have to push and that was true for me.

I did but honestly didn’t care.
I also when I was getting cleaned up after birth fully farted in a healthcare assistants face (unintentional) and they just laughed. That was more mortifying

With my first baby I did so now I tell him I pooed him out haha xxx

I did with my first, didn’t with my second. My partner still has no idea I pooped with our first lol. His head wasn’t down there and she was so quick to clean it x

My BF and I had to rush to the hospital after he made me wait for an hour while he called all his clients to cancel them for the day, since he’s a barber and owns his own business. I ended up delivering my baby by myself, completely alone, right in front of the hospital doors in the back seat of his car after being tossed back and forth from him speeding.
Then, I had 20 nurses and doctors surrounding his car while they took my baby and me upstairs on different beds to remove the placenta. I looked at my BF as he stood outside looking at me, and I said, "Baby, I’m so sorry, I fucked up your Mercedes."
He was like, "Baby, it’s okay, we'll get it cleaned."
I replied, "No, it’s fucked up."
He had to take medical gloves and bags from the hospital and scoop up all my insides. And yes, I pushed so hard that I pooped right there in the back seat of his car.

Pretty sure I did with both births. Honestly no one cares, not even you will care 😂

Both times extreme diahorreah in early labour, privately on the loo lmao

1st time maybe? Either blood or poop was taken away at one point (epidural)

2nd time I could have shat out a grandfather clock and I wouldnt have noticed. (Unmedicated, then injection 5 mins before she shot out)

If I had recorded my recent birth like I'd intended to, the dialogue once I got to pushing stage would have been mostly "I'm gonna poop" ... And yet afterward they all said I didn't lol

I honestly wonder why people care so much about if they did or not. Why does it matter?

I have no idea if I did. My husband says he didn't see anything. But my guess is the nurse was just lightning fast as my husband was the one who caught the baby and I think he was probably more focused on that. I didn't think to ask him until I saw someone talking about it way after the fact.

I did with my first just before I pushed. Apparently according to the midwife I had of your bowels are full pushing your baby will be harder 🤣
With my second again I was full and they gave me an enema to empty me out at the start of my induction haha

No. I only got to 3cm dilated after 10 hours of labour before having an emergency C-section for stress and cord round the neck.